If your question is different enough to warrant a new thread, then you can simply ask it as if there were no other thread. Your question is new and deserves to be discussed with its own dedicated context. No need to preserve the old context.
You could start by referencing the other thread, mention that it raised a related (but different) question, and then simply ask that question in your own words. Or to put it simply.. do the same thing you just did for this question. -Ben Sent from Proton Mail Android -------- Original Message -------- On 1/24/25 8:36 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > In a thread titled "Emacs text modes", Russell Senior wrote: > > You can look for files that might have changed, say, in the last 7 > > days, in your home directory tree with something like this: > > > > find ~/ -type f -mtime -7 -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sort -n | less > > "How to ask question ONLY loosely related to another thread?" is really > two separate questions: > > 1. This post is an example of one in which quoting a portion of > a previous post gives *all* the context required to answer > the question(s) posed. > > 2. A second situation is where the previous post doesn't/can't > provide all the context required to answer the question(s) posed. > The temptation in this case is to "hijack" the previous thread > by starting a sub-thread (perhaps with a different or modified > subject line). > IOW, how does one link to the previous thread so a potential > respondent can conveniently know the total context? > > P.S. Questions raised by Russell's post are coming ;} > > > >
